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Spring Cake

For this Easter Bank Holiday Weekend I thought it would be nice to post a cake recipe. But already I have a bit of a headache (which I think could possibly be attributed to an over consumption of chocolate eggs) so I’ve gone for a light, chocolate-free, fruity number! I made some fresh tropical fruit orb thingys to decorate it, which you can see as Easter eggs or as Spring flowers (or just bits of fruit), and then added some paper Avocets. There’s nothing significant about the use of avocets, I just wanted to draw some black and white birds with long legs to give the cake some height and these wetland birds seemed to fit the bill…(sorry it that a bad joke?).

You will also need 1 small round cake tin, greased with butter and lined with a circle of grease proof paper

Method

Pre-heat your oven to 190°C

First make the cake: Whisk the eggs and sugar together until pale and fluffy (or in my case until your arm aches because you’ve been making cakes all day and can’t be bothered to wash the electric whisk again)

Whisk in the oil then add the grated carrot and lemon zest.

Fold in the baking powder and flour until fully combined and then tip everything into your prepared tin

Bake for about 25-30 minutes or until a skewer poked into the middle comes out cleanly

Turn the cake out onto a rack to cool completely

Mix the filling ingredients together in a bowl then put into the fridge to firm up a little while you slice the cooled cake horizontally through the middle

Sandwich the cake together with the cheesecake filling and pop the cake into the fridge for 10-15 minutes

Meanwhile, mix the icing sugar with the juice of 1 lemon until thick and smooth – you want the consistency to be somewhere between double cream and smooth peanut butter, so add the icing sugar bit by bit to the lemon juice and add more or less if needed

Use a melon baller to carve little pastel spheres from a fresh pineapple, mango and melon. Ice the cake and then decorate with the fruit, mint leaves and a gentle snow flurry of icing sugar.

I added some drawings of avocets to mine, which I taped to cocktail sticks, but you can add your own drawings or any other cake decorations you like.

5 thoughts on “Spring Cake”

This looks delicious, I Love the idea of decorating with fresh fruit and mint for a lighter finish. Chocolate is wonderful but can get too much sometimes, particularly at Easter, so this looks like the perfect way to round of an Easter Sunday meal.
Cute drawings too! Happy Easter 🙂

Thanks 🙂 It’s really fresh and zingy and I’ve just had a smoothie from the leftover fruit so feeling a lot better about eating all that choc!
Hope you have a lovely weekend too, how did the sourdough & lemon curd go? x

unfortunately ran out of time for the lemon curd, but the sourdough is splendid! Chocolatewise, I have a seemingly endless mountain of the stuff! Diet time I think, I need to get on the smoothies too! x